Migrating From Wordpress to Hugo
gomakethings.comA couple of weeks ago, I moved this site over from WordPress to Hugo, a static site generator. I’ve written a little bit about why I made the switch, how I automated deployment of my site, and how I’m able to automatically publish prescheduled posts at the right time. Today, I wanted to talk about something a bunch of people have asked me about: how to actually migrate content from WordPress into Hugo.
WordPress is a fantastic CMS that powers a big chunk of websites out there, which all have different features. As a result, it has a pretty robust architecture that can feel a bit too complex to run a simple blog. In this article, Christopher Kirk-Nielsen will go over how he made the transition from WordPress to a specific static site generator named Hugo. Let’s have a look at how Hugo can help us create a blog that is simple and fast!
I’ve long been frustrated with wordpress as the way I post content on my blog: It is bloated and slow to load pages. Requires an SQL server for content which is mostly static. I find the editor unintuitive. Code samples never quite displayed correctly. I’ve been looking at Hugo for a while now as I love the idea of static site generator, but everytime in the past I tried to switch to it in the past but I was frustrated by the export to hugo plugin for wordpress being broken.